The Importance of Aurobindo for the Contemporary Study of Religion

Graduate Seminar
OCHS Library
Brainerd Prince
Wednesday, 8 February 2012 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

The contemporary academic study of religion, dominated by both a call for the abandonment of the category ‘Religion’ and the dismantling of the discipline of Religious Studies, is thus faced with an impasse. In this paper, I explore the conditions that have brought about this impasse and argue that Aurobindo’s integralism offers a way forward.

 
Brainerd Prince is completing his PhD on Sri Aurobindo's Integral Philosophy under Professor Gavin Flood. He has interests in phenomenology and hermeneutics and in reconceiving the academic study of religion.
Related: 
Hindu Theology
Modern Hinduism
Religious Studies
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